This morning we finished passing out the rest of the flyers, and many people had great opportunities to get into spiritual conversations with adults and many children. It has been great to see the excitement stirring among the kids! We cannot wait to see what God has planned... :)
HBC Location
We certainly know that the enemy is at work! Today we found out that the community center that we planned on using is now not available. This threw a huge wrench in our plans that could easily be discouraging... but rather, we are encouraged! The fact that this happened now, so close to Holiday Bible Club, means that the enemy is very threatened by what God is trying to accompish. No other words can best suit this situation than a verse that is found in the Bible lessons we have planned for Bible Club:
Genesis 50:20Please pray! God is at work, and so is the enemy... but we serve the Lord of lords, the King of kings, the God of all gods.
"But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive."
1John 4:4
"Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world."
Lamentations 3:25
"The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him."
Blarney Castle | Blarney Woolen Mills
Since we were able to finish passing out all the flyers ahead of schedule, today ended up being the day we could do some souvenir shopping and see Blarney castle. We had a great time of fellowship and team bonding.
Evening Devotion: Compassion - Part 2
Continuing the discussion on true compassion, we took a look at Philippians 2:8, "And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross." Seeing by the example of Christ, having compassion doesn't necessarily assume convenience. In fact, most of the time it means that we will be inconvenienced in order to have true compassion. It was not convenient for Jesus to leave the glory of heaven at the right hand of God; it was not convenient for Christ to humble himself and become a human and like unto a servant; it was not convenient for the Son of God to become obedient unto death, even the death of the cross; it was not convenient to bear the sins of the whole world and therefore be rejected by the Father, breaking his fellowship with the Trinity for the first and only time in all of eternity. True compassion takes someone beyond feelings, for it's sure Jesus didn't feel like going to the cross to die as an innocent man for the sins of the whole world (Matthew 26:39, 42). Our feelings will limit us, but true compassion will take us to the ends of the earth. Do you truly have compassion? This kind of compassion can only come from the One that exemplified it... This kind of compassion is what is needed to glorify God.
Location:Mallow, Ireland
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